Friday, March 24, 2017

One can only say with the distance of time, away from Government sources, having not stood for election in some time the former Deputy PM must be slightly confused by the issue of Democracy. One has found that Remainers do not like Democracy much, they seem to think that the elite in London and the Lords of the Upper House have some special knowledge of WHAT is good for the UK, that their Lordships with their good allowance for turning up and many bars to relax have some right to overturn the view of the voters. Those that voted remain have to get over the FACT that they lost, we are going OUT of the EU, the UK voter is not foolish, he/she do live in the real world, they see the benefits and the non benefits of the EU, and they decided, we are the UK, we do not do 2nd votes to please the elite or the EU.

IF this is the best that Speaker Ryan can come up with the Republicans need a new Speaker of the House, a strong Speaker should be able to get his PARTY to support any major policy of the President if the President is the leader of that Party. A WEAK leader allows this kind of mess, the members in some respects should be afraid of the Speaker, he decides who gets what Committee jobs, and who is in the leadership of the House. It might be time for Trump to find a new Conservative Speaker, a strong leader, a leader who will put the fear the God OR Voter in to members. As stated the White House should now go on to tax cuts or defence build up, that has worked in the past.

The Conservative members of the House who said NO to repealing and replacing ObamaCare will have to justify their votes to their conservative voters. One can see the Trump White House leaving ObamaCare to fall apart, the Republicans will not grant quick fixes for Democrats, so Democrats will still have ObamaCare on their back, and when it falls, in part apart due to the insurance companies leaving the market or the costs going through the roof the Democrats will be asked for solutions. The Trump White House should now go on to TAX CUTS, that should unite all Republicans.

This political defeat and it is a major political defeat will be looking for scapegoats, the White House will be looking for the House Speaker to take the blame for this political disaster. It looks like the Trump, the deal maker could not even get his own Party to support him, the Republicans would have never done this to Ronald Reagan. Even Bush 43 at a push. The House leadership will be pointing to the Conservative members of the Republican Party who would not budge on their demands, the same can be said of the moderates. The White House needs a diversion, MAJOR TAX cuts be an idea, even bigger cuts than the Gipper in the 1980s. One can see why President Nixon was more interested in international affairs, politics of the House and Senate can be a odd, Conservative Republicans with liberal Democrats together when it comes to ObamaCare.

THIS is a major blow for President Trump, he was supposed to be the deal maker, well with his first major domestic policy he has failed to get Republican support in the House. The question is what else will be sunk, the next major policy issue is tax cuts, will the Conservatives Republicans want major cuts while the moderates will want a more balanced approach. The Democrats should not be too happy, ObamaCare is failing, if Trump won't save it and the Democrats have no new policy the will also get the blame. It has to be said that President Obama was better at handling the US Congress when the Democrats were in charge, the Democrats will run on the Republican failure in the 2018 Mid Terms.